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In the wake of Christchurch, the gun control debate has taken centre stage ahead of this Saturday's NSW Election. Former Prime Minister John Howard appeared in a campaign ad for the Berejiklian Government, warning that a vote for Labor was a vote for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, and ...

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has gone back to the future to deliver a climate change policy with the unenviable task of winning over voters while not antagonising the climate sceptics in his own party. The Government has pledged a $2 billion dollar Climate Solutions Fund, a re-branded, ...

Addressing climate change with "cool heads, not just impassioned hearts" that's how the Prime Minister sums up his pre-election plan to meet Australia's carbon reduction targets under the Paris Agreement. Later this morning, Scott Morrison will announce a $2 billion injection into the ...

With both major parties already in campaign mode, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison today began road testing his pitch for re-election. Kicking off another tour of marginal Queensland, the PM pledged to create an additional 1.25 million jobs over the next five years. He talked up the Coalition's ...